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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It consumes the body, and it consumes the purse, yea it consumes all our worldly comforts and concernments, it consumes every thing but grace. We say, A time of sickness is a spending time; the usual reference of that expression, is to spirituals. In health we gather grace and lay up truths, which we spend in sickness. But though sickness be a spending time, yet, it is not (I am sure it ought not to be) a wasting time to grace and spirituals. ⟨p. 357⟩A spending time it is, that is, a time wherein a godly man may lay out a great deal of his spiritual stock and heavenly treasure, a great deal of faith and patience, a great deal of sweet contentation and self-submission to God. But sickness is not a wasting time to any of these graces or heavenly treasures; yea where grace is real and active, it is not only not wasted or consumed, but increased and improved, occasionally, by sickness; God having promised, that all things shall work together for good to them that love him (Rom: 8.28.) will not suffer the best things of those that love him (their graces) to take hurt by the worst of bodily sicknesses. Sickness doth only damage the body, and deface the beauty of the flesh; and it quickly doth, as Elihu affirm of his sick man in the text, His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen, yea, as it followeth And his bones that were not seen, stick out.
It consumes the body, and it consumes the purse, yea it consumes all our worldly comforts and concernments, it consumes every thing but grace. We say, A time of sickness is a spending time; the usuall reference of that expression, is to spiritualls. In health we gather grace and lay up truths, which we spend in sickness. But though sickness be a spending time, yet, it is not (I am sure it ought not to be) a wasting time to grace and spiritualls. ⟨p. 357⟩A spending time it is, that is, a time wherein a godly man may lay out a great deale of his spirituall stock and heavenly treasure, a great deale of faith and patience, a great deale of sweet contentation and selfe-submission to God. But sickness is not a wasting time to any of these graces or heavenly treasures; yea where grace is reall and active, it is not only not wasted or consumed, but encreased and improved, occasionally, by sickness; God having promised, that all things shall worke together for good to them that love him (Rom: 8.28.) will not suffer the best things of those that love him (their graces) to take hurt by the worst of bodyly sicknesses. Sickness doth only dammage the body, and deface the beauty of the flesh; and it quickly doth, as Elihu affirme of his sick man in the text, His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seene, yea, as it followeth And his bones that were not seene, stick out.